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ἀνθρώπ-ινος , η, ον, also ος, ον Pl.Lg.737b:—
A.of, from, or belonging to man, human, “ἀ. βίος” Philol.11, cf. Hdt.7.46; ἅπαν τὸ ἀ. all mankind, Id.1.86; τὸ ἀ. γένος (v.l. φῦλον) Antipho 4.1.2, Pl.Phd.82b; ἀ. κίνδυνοι, opp. θεῖοι, And.1.139; “ἀ. δίκη” Lys.6.20; ἀ. τεκμήρια, opp. omens, Antipho 5.81; “τἀνθρώπινα” human affairs, Pl.Tht.170b, Arist.EN1102b3 (v.l. -ικά） ἀνθρώπινόν τι παθεῖν die, IG5(2), 266.20 (Mantinea, i B. C.), cf. PPetr.1p.33 (iii B. C.), PRyl.153.39 (ii A. D.); so “ἐάν τι τῶν ἀ. περί τινα γένηται” Epicur.Fr.217.
2. human, suited to man, ἀνθρωπίνη δόξα fallible, human understanding, Pl.Sph.229a; οὐκ ἀ. ἀμαθία super-human, monstrous folly, Id.Lg.737b, etc.; ἀ. καὶ μετρία σκῆψις
D. 21.41; “οὐ χρὴ ἀνθρώπινα φρονεῖν ἄνθρωπον ὄντα” Arist.EN1177b32; “ἀ. νοῦς” Men.482; “ἀ. τὸ γεγενημένον” X.Cyr.5.4.19.
3. ἀνθρώπινα, τά, secular revenues, SIG527.133; secular rites, opp.θῖνα, Leg.Gort.10.43.
II. Adv. ἀνθρωπίνως, ἁμαρτάνειν commit human, i.e. venial, errors, Th.3.40; “ἀνθρωπινώτερον” more within the range of human faculty, Pl.Cra.392b, D.18.252; ἀνθρωπίνως ἐκλογίζεσθαι, i.e. with fellow-feeling, And.2.6; humanely, gently, D.23.70; “ἀ. χρὴ τὰς τύχας φέρειν” with moderation, Men.816; “εὐτυχίαν” D.S.1.60.—Of the three forms, ἀνθρώπειος is used exclusively in Trag. and generally in Th. (but cf.1.22); ἀνθρώπινος prevails in Comedy and in Prose from Pl. downwds. (though he uses ἀνθρώπειος no less frequently); ἀνθρωπικός is freq. in Arist. ἀνθρώπ-ιον , τό, = sq., E.Cyc. 185, Anaxandr. 34; paltry fellow, “ὦ πόνηρ᾽ ἀνθρώπια” Ar.Pax263, cf. X.Mem.2.3.16, Cyr.5.1.14, D.18.242.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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